china operations are ruled today. the week's top stories from superstorm sandy wreaks havoc across the northeastern usa leaving one hundred dead millions called in the country's most expensive presidential campaign to date in a tailspin. no peace for post gadhafi libya as the country's two major cities are attacked grenade strikes the security headquarters in tripoli when a car bombs detonated in benghazi. truth under attack in greece journalists show solidarity with whistleblowers who are being silenced or trying to expose government wrong. because fly in the streets of moscow russia's most radical nationalists merging in the capital and nationwide aiming to stir up divisions on the country's dave unity.

within about the past seven days top stories in the latest developments this is the weekly. while voters in florida lined up to cast their ballots in early voting those in new york a lining up for fuel rations and blankets much of the big apple remains paralyzed and tens of thousands still without power heat or hot water nearly a week after superstorm sandy ripped through. with the political fallout from the disaster. she was a storm the size of europe and a mighty game changer for america's upcoming u.s. presidential election early voting was suspended as hurricane sandy ripped through the u.s. east coast monday causing eight and a half million homes and businesses to lose power president barack obama canceled campaign appearances to handle the superstorm the election will take care of itself

next week right now our number one priority is to make sure that we are saving lives national polls show the commander in chief garnered excellent marks for his response to my own fate and fema i think that was the president. flying overhead. is my man. vote for obama. yet the biggest praise of all came from a staunch romney supporter the cooperation from the president i did states has been outstanding the president has been all over this he deserves great credit if you think right now i give a damn about presidential politics that you don't know me looking to also score political points republican candidate mitt romney rebranded his victory rally in ohio into a relief a vent for sandy victims. to stop their political campaigning because. they. are still being very close but while the candidates attempt to

feature sandy in their quest for votes her victims are too busy piecing their lives back together below thirty ninth street has become known as the dark side of manhattan hundreds of thousands have been surviving without electricity heat and hot water for more than five days on staten island polling stations are no longer standing voting locations are being moved in parts of new jersey massachusetts connecticut and pennsylvania that are still dark and damaged by the storm some experts say the last minute scrambling will undoubtedly leave countless americans disenfranchised from democracy on november sixth it's destroying the legitimacy of the election potentially on the east coast early voting is been wiped out in these cities and states the voting of the elderly on election day the voting of the poor on election day the voting in of new yorkers on election day

is likely to be diminished through no fault of their own and that will affect the outcome of the election an election now defined by two men and sandy marina port ny r.t. new york. regardless of who wins the election on tuesday washington will still have to find fifty billion dollars to cover the damage that sandy did and it's not likely to come from cuts to the military the country's defense budget dwarfs that of any other nation and in these hard times observers say that money could be put to better use elsewhere there's no more important issue in america today and how much we're spending on our military our military industrial complex that's where most of us tax dollars go i mean most americans know that this is just wasteful spending here it creates a few jobs but there's so many more jobs that would be created if that spending that governmental spending was done on a whole bunch of other things like publicly utilities like

a whole other range of areas so it's really destroying our economy in a lot of ways besides creating a lot on this sort of violence around the world it seems like the legacy of us being involved in all these on the sort of wars over these last several years is going to be the same legacy that happened to a lot of other. empires that just they just spent themselves out of existence that happened to the soviet union in their own this is very wars that happened to the british you know it happened to a lot of other societies that these military industrial complex takes over nobody stops it and before you know it you know your whole country is like an overwhelming debt whether you're disenchanted with military spending or the neck a political alternative to the republicans and democrats take heart in that there is at least some choice sweeping bring you extensive coverage of the party candidates plans and policies and it continues on monday when we host their final debate live from washington. keep us politics

straight. the power. changes trucks. close monday nov fifth. militiaman in libya's capital of the supreme security committee had. a series of sporadic gun battles outside the building. as more details. well it got a battle raging in south tripoli between two rival libyan militias around the libyan security headquarters building and from the information we have at least five people have been injured and part of that building has been destroyed now we are receiving reports that the whole area has been cordoned off that many residents in the area have rushed home and if there came in itself in front inside of their homes and also arming themselves but my question is that security building is force and makes to the tripoli central hospital and some of the but it's from his gun

that will pierce the hospital was also on sunday morning today was a car bomb explosion in front of a police station in the second largest city in libya of bengazi now at least three police officers were wounded in that car explosion we're not hearing any reports as an actual people who have been killed we also know that part of the building particularly the entrance has been damaged that facade to the building has been talking just for you and they are in number of shattered windows now one of those comes up to more than a thousand protesters take to the streets of benghazi they are calling for the eastern half of libya to be separated we're talking here about roughly half the territory of the country that holds more than three quarters of the oil reserves they want their own autonomy their one too many to the owner of things and then one thing ghazi to be the economic capital of the country all of this coming a little more than a year since the so-called revolution alstom the former you get more of the gadhafi

and. polarized nations of people colorization sentence for people wanting gun battles on the streets we also know that for weeks now the city of funny when it has been and to see and from there we saw how when pictures of death and destruction. there's also terror in syria in the heart of the capital surely we have details of an explosion a highly secured government buildings in damascus. america's libr. record doesn't want to divulge anything uncomfortable so this is what you get when you search for anything linked to wiki leaks small and that's coming up in a few minutes stay with us. a greek whistleblower arrested after publishing a list of the country's potential tax evaders was acquitted on thursday but another is still in custody after threatening to reveal how the books were cooked before greece got its bailout as peter all of our now reports the trend in greece is to root out those who reveal wrongdoing rather than the perpetrators. is the greek

government using bully boy tactics to cover up its own failings that's the question that took thousands of greek journalists to the streets of athens they can't list for their outrage was the arrest of journalist vaxevanis after he revealed the names of more than two thousand wealthy and highly influential greeks accused of stashing illicit gains in swiss bank accounts. we published a list that other countries had in their possession and our government was aware of for two years but did nothing in the absence of democracy greece is governed by corrupt characters who deceive the public claiming they're handling tax evasion. vaxevanis was set free after the judges decided that he did not have a case to answer however his story is sent a shockwave through an already fractious society we are in a period of political muscle and political crisis social crisis is obvious

we have a dream. of unemployment we are a real thing one might say weimar republic kind of unemployment levels there is poverty. there or there is more austerity coming but when it comes to reporting on government business one senior member of the greek union of journalists told me that it's getting close to cooperate all quit some of its own members of the frustrations have been imposed to any voice of the opposition and the media does restricting journalists some two thousand five hundred media professionals technicians included have lost their job since last year. and those who attempt to stand up to authority and expose corruption are handcuffed to be arrested because he revealed the names obviously you can understand that people can cooperate with the state but vaxevanis told me he won't keep silent i asked him if he was given

another list of names what would he do this is my job this is what journalists do they don't cover scandals they told the truth and the elites tried for two whole years to cover up major evidence that renders them in the system entirely unreliable. the arrest of a journalist while trying to reveal wrongdoing has left some greeks feeling that the democratic rights of the road it's here in the very birthplace of democracy peter all of a party. the u.s. is literally raising wiki leaks from memory with the national archives banning any search that includes the whistle blowing organizations name civil rights groups joined by. brynn's aren't happy at all saying such blatant censorship is akin to george orwell's ministry of truth well mourn the. loss leader of the u.k. pirate party the reasoning is that searching for wiki leaks might lead web surface

to classified and illegal material leaked by the organization so isn't the ban justified. well no i mean if you look at the stated mission of the library of congress since two to preserve a collective body of knowledge the job of any line should be to share that knowledge but it's frankly not surprising that such organizations that are under pressure to actually conform to these kind of classification law but essentially this is still censorship and censorship laws it's actually stepping on freedom of speech what price the first amendment is now. we often see that the united states is very quick to criticize and states a broader stepping on premium speech would seem able to say to uphold the same standards at home we can see how the wind that that principle whistle blowing

both for journalism and for democracy we can see this exactly what's just been happening in greece right now but just how much freedom of speech should be accepted that many would say of course that we can exist accused of compromising national security even endangering people's lives so where is the line between censorship and security or there is certainly been no evidence that anyone's life and lives have been endangered the real point is that this is an entirely through target gesture anyway these documents are perfectly of perfectly acceptable anywhere it's simply actually trying to add to a bolt gate after the horse is flared is it though not symbolically a sign that perhaps this could be a blow to the whole we can eat ethos instead of freeing up information we're seeing agencies now really battening down the hatches and restricting it. well this is a really unfortunate development frankly but what's really important is that we

stand for the principles of defending journalism a friend defending the sharing of knowledge that is what line breeds are about and that's what they should get out and it's a vital part of the democratic process sure and that democratic process though could be in some ways blocked where we could find people trying to uncover the truth will now face even more barriers such as what we're seeing now. well i think that's why it's really vital that we also see this in a political context and that's always what we've done the pirate party and said that actually it's important that we set this on the political agenda that it's actually vital which strengths are and sort of strength and transparency strengthen accountability i mean this isn't something that's just abstract it's concrete

whether it's the global situation or even just right here in manchester about how the council spent the money it's that actually the grant. of information has to be on the phone and into the markets so we can make important choices to the ballot box and in our national discussion and it's vital that we have a president some people and politicians stand up to defend plats right laws k. really interesting here thoughts on this thank you so much for joining us late of the u.k. parra party joining me live from manchester thank you. this r.t. live here in moscow more news to come in just a few minutes stay with us. it sounds like a dragon crashing through the forest but it is in fact technology versus trees and would you believe it this machine can fall and strip hundreds of them each day

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news continues here on r.t. this is the weekly some of russia's most radical political groups elton force this sunday from die hard nationalist to write fascists in dozens of cities tens of thousands of joined marches chanting against immigration israel islam and all things foreign bodies you see coming off has been watching the crowds in moscow. the slogans and the messages that we've been hearing from the crowd behind me is that russia for russians only they want the flag of the russian order they're basically demanding jobs for your russians whatever that means and they're also pushing to repeal the law part of the russian criminal law that actually punishes hate crimes motivated by religious hatred nationalist and that that patron so it's . a message of national unity that probably doesn't sit well with a large chunk of the population now there are some reports about six thousand people in the crowd right now the permit us for about ten thousand people so we

could see those numbers a lot of force not massive police presence here as well so far the protest seems to be largely peaceful although we've also heard reports of about twenty five people wearing black clothes with the swastika shouting slogans they've been detained in another part of the city center here in moscow now we have to keep in mind that this is play of swastikas is of course banned in russia as well as many european countries similar types of rallies have been taking place across russia and we've heard of another report of about ninety people detained in the urals city if you can see if you are taking part of an authorized nationalist rally there now the police say that most of those people were teenagers again rather disturbing sight frankly we've seen a lot of by nationalist flags as sort of icons from the church which i guess is the symbol of some of the people here as well as some reports of people actually chanting long live and there's a brave person far right extremists present massacred seventy seven people in

norway. stargazers now get the chance to spot a man made mobile in the night sky with their own noise. in a tip off the see the space station with a master alert to tell you when the r.s.s. goes flying overhead the details are online. plus a prize for the pied piper who read a small south african town where runs on the rampage and we tell you what the. being a road. anita. explosions at the center of the syrian capital damascus the blast which state t.v. described as terrorism took place in a heavily guarded military and government buildings regional analysts tell r.t. that those who support radical elements in syria are to blame. there are two sides to this conflict one is the syrian government and that can be held accountable in a simple way the other side is very diffuse and this is this is where the problems always been that you cannot control all the elements so even if let's say the

majority of opposition figures want to participate you have a few spoilers who ruin it and we know by and large who supplying the spoilers you know in this countries like saudi arabia and qatar and turkey now if the international community was serious about a resolution of this conflict or at least helping to defuse the humanitarian element of this conflict which is ostensibly what they argue they would immediately penalize. perhaps even sanction the countries that are providing arms to the rebels who are the spoilers every time there are efforts to. bring the parties together and achieve cease fire syria's opposition leaders are trying to reshuffle their ranks and agree in a more common platform as they meet in capitals capital the government comes amid disturbing revelations of the methods rebel fighters are resorting to while battling the army on the ground and video surfaces week depicting what the u.n. describes as a potential more crime but apparently shows the rebels parading the soldiers they

seized at least ten men called a savage dogs by their captors kicked and beaten before being sprayed with president arab boys associations of the unlikely think. the western world which created the international court of justice does not want to talk great except when they wish they didn't have to it didn't happen in the crowd. that were committed in iraq it didn't happen happened in afghanistan it is not likely to happen when it is in syria because. where the western powers particularly nato and the usa and therefore the international justice is not to look into these things specially if one recognizes remembers the usa withdrawing from that agreement or refused to sign the agreement on the boundary signed multiple agreements with multiple countries that their soldiers will not be subject

to their war so i don't think it is likely this is from the outside and i think on the practical side it's all supposed. to identify the project and. look now at some other of today's world news in our world update to think you waited for the government's ban on public gatherings with reports of thousands of people uniting in a demonstration against new voting rules police use stun grenades and smoke bombs despite the rally being peaceful opposition believes the election changes were unfairly help pro-government candidates in next month's election rallies were banned after a string of violent clashes involving thousands marching against q.h. rivers. in a church in kenya has killed one policeman and wounded fourteen others mostly security officers the country and the wider region have suffered a wave of similar deadly attacks in response to. neighboring somalia. and surgeons in july eighteen people died in church attacks in the same town as sunday's. want to bring you up to date from here not too still to come the roots of

the occupy movement revealed in poultry the series american auto. looters that takes your breath away few tourists travel to these paulette's no prepackaged confort but they joy is the wildest guaranteed if gagne's a zoology professor he works in the u.s. and travels to these remote areas in washington every summer as he says he confines untouched landscapes like these anywhere else in the world. we're going off the list below sea line. if i go wrong the wrong and surprising and you'll go straight to the water and so we did our plan to get closer to the sea lion and shake its

flipper field a little before before. one animal whose par you definitely wouldn't want to shake here is the brown bear you can literally spot agrees the here by every small weaver who saw where the bears are fishing but they have a very well be able to think that we have to keep an eye a wind direction at the best of them and both up all that could be dangerous so we won't go yes to shell but before it was. and quiet we went but the wind was not on our side and the bear got away but they're usually the first to avoid contact with humans but during spawning time when both people and bears go fishing people often shoot at them to scare them away and every year here in the region you hear about someone being killed by the predators. but at the mugger down nature reserve where we are no one disturbs the

bears. another local resident who hates his peace being disturbed here is the howlers eagle in has a wingspan of two and a half meters ignace only here in russia far east because of the bundles of salmon and seagulls which feed the giant bird in his studies if gainey focuses on birds so he took me to one of his favorite places here the mara island it has the biggest colony of seagulls in the region and the climb up was tough. but the prize was worth it. if there was no security here it would be. there you will have tons of people coming here not just to get some for me on the beach here nothing is guaranteed you have to struggle to get your piece of road nothing really all you can fly on oprah did you have to rely on

yourself and two bucks. or so we're going to have to be the bad. maybe for the wildlife here is the lack of things it is this for the better but when you stand on top of phenomenal and like this you just cantelupe wanting to share the beauty. mission. couldn't take three and four charges free. range three. three stooges free. download free broadcast quality video for your media projects a free video done to our t.v. dot com. i got some really. and i

work more i think my father is see the way you read and an assistant to the man i'm speaking with here vice president of seat anyway district one chris shelton one of the groups c.w.a. represents is rising workers and as of june two thousand and twelve the horizon workers he represents have been working without a contract for over a year except this round of contracts is different the rising is trying to break the union everything my father worked for his whole career could be gone within his life and so many of the british people who are many walks of life that recognize that we are the not percent of the time of record profits of ricers are still the very same people that have made the. rich corporations that they now want to do with benefits acceptable for mark want to feel their eyes and should be the poster child for corporate greed because of all the money they make and what they're trying to do to us and everybody else at the bar you say it's about saving a million dollars next year what do you think that this.